Along the way, we encounter a selection of artefacts, remnants and artworks connecting the long 21st century with what went before. It traces a route from change to understanding, from inner knowledge to wisdom. This exhibition is imagined as a journey unfolding across four galleries, orientated to the cardinal points. Here, communities have embraced different forms of colour production, weather forecasting and spirituality. Once known as Nottingham, the Silver City is set against a backdrop of fire seasons and widening waterways. This world has been reshaped by decades of crisis and collapse: resource wars and evacuations, plastic-eating bacteria and flooding. It is an exhibition-as-sci-fi-novel, or vice-versa.Ĭrossing the gallery threshold, we step into a possible future world. Our Silver City travels to the end of this century, featuring works from the last 400 million years.
"A profound exhibition", Amrit Doll, ArtReview
"Our Silver City feels full of hope, vitality, energy and creative spark, and doesn’t take itself too seriously, however real the approaching calamity.", ★★★★ Adrian Searle, The Guardian Installation shot at Nottingham Contemporary, 2021.
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